Once upon a time, the Three Little Pigs built their houses of straw, sticks and bricks. But if they were planning a new home today, they would have another option guaranteed to withstand the most ...

A RECENT story by Denise Salvaggio about steel-frame homes left out how environmentally expensive it is to use steel as a building material instead of wood. This is ironic in a story that focuses on a ...

And it has since assembled and trained a 16-person team of designers, fabricators and builders, who are using the new custom steel materials to create what the commission’s longtime CEO Kevin Belanger ...

Hurricanes and termites make homeowners cringe. But they’ve become selling points for businessmen promoting steel home components. Andrew Marshall, co-owner of an Arabi company that manufactures steel ...

When Lynn Beattie decided to build a house, she began to research all the various decisions that would have to be made during the process. One seminar she attended mentioned the growing problem of ...

Q: We're considering erecting a 4,000-square-foot steel frame home (from Heritage Building Systems) on our ranch in Turlock in Stanislaus County. Please discuss the merits/demerits of a steel (not ...

`Superhouse,” the home of steel, is a concept that has yet to show its strength in the Chicago area. But one of the few local projects using steel is a demonstration house now being built by the ...

LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESS Newswire / May 1, 2025 / In the aftermath of January's wildfires that swept through 40,000 acres causing $250 billion in local economic damage, destroying more than 16,000 ...

American homebuilders love lumber. Can they learn to love steel? Last year, 94% of all single-family homes built in the United States were "stick built," according to industry data. Most of the ...

But now it is taking its steel building methods to new places, which could eventually make an impact on the construction of single-family homes. Last year, RNGD opened its 85,000-square-foot ...